Quotes by Activists - Page 49

We are all made complete by our pain.
Bryant McGill
Everything in life will attack you if it senses your fear; animals, people — but faithful confidence wards off all manner of evil.
Bryant McGill
You are moving forward one way or another.
Bryant McGill
When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
Bryant McGill
You have to have faith if you want to make it out of the woods. Faith is your only hope for deliverance.
Bryant McGill
If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action.
Bryant McGill
Accept that you can and will do what you must do, to take good care of yourself.
Bryant McGill
So stretch! Reach for it. Like falling down stairs, where your inner-genius takes over and saves you — your instincts are ready to serve you.
Bryant McGill
You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius.
Bryant McGill
Being broken open by the storm is your only hope.
Bryant McGill
Fear is always death. Faith is life. Have faith and your victory is assured.
Bryant McGill
Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.
Bryant McGill
The further you are challenged and threatened, the more your warrior heart will emerge.
Bryant McGill
Humility puts others first because "first" takes on new meaning through the practice of humility.
Bryant McGill
You are the first person who you should treat with humility. Respect yourself and let it overflow to others.
Bryant McGill
It is through our pain that we emerge.
Bryant McGill
In your tragedies you will find your most magnificent opportunities for rebirth.
Bryant McGill
What we want for others doesn't work unless they want it for themselves.
Bryant McGill
People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.
Bryant McGill
Don't run from your pain — run into your pain.
Bryant McGill
Any good is good enough.
Bryant McGill
Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.
Bryant McGill
Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope.
Bryant McGill
You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.
Bryant McGill
Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.
Bryant McGill
Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.
Bryant McGill
If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.
Bryant McGill
Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all — humility cares.
Bryant McGill
Each person was meant to blossom into their own unique signature of greatness.
Bryant McGill
Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.
Bryant McGill
Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward — believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.
Bryant McGill
When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies.
Bryant McGill
The clearing is often only happening for us, and those who love us most cannot see or believe in our nascent visions.
Bryant McGill
This is your life and you have the right and responsibility to make good decisions for yourself.
Bryant McGill
If you don't like something in your life, look only at who you are.
Bryant McGill
You must clear out what you don't want, to make room for what you do want to arrive.
Bryant McGill
If you want more then be more. If you want better then be better.
Bryant McGill
Balance in life is the key to everything.
Bryant McGill
Sometimes you have to get away from what you know to discover what you don't know.
Bryant McGill
Until you stop blaming and become positively self-critical you are not going to move forward.
Bryant McGill
Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.
Bryant McGill
The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.
Bryant McGill
Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness.
Bryant McGill
Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us.
Bryant McGill
You must cultivate value within yourself if you want to move forward.
Bryant McGill
Self-love the perfect soil from which to grow love.
Bryant McGill
If you make it right with yourself, it will be right with the whole world.
Bryant McGill
We only truly understand what we experience.
Bryant McGill
Develop new stories from new positive experiences and relationships — the experiences of your emerging new self!
Bryant McGill
All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further.
Bryant McGill
You are your own essential ally. Get right with yourself.
Bryant McGill
Work to become whole enough to love and to be loved.
Bryant McGill
One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.
Bryant McGill
Persistence is the most traveled path to success.
Bryant McGill
The struggle is beautiful.
Bryant McGill
Do not be limited by the judgements of others.
Bryant McGill
As our heart soars, we fly with it! Let love take you places!
Bryant McGill
Real success sometimes involves saying no to growth, expansion and gain.
Bryant McGill
Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.
Bryant McGill
Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others.
Bryant McGill